# \&background

General Option! ([`&push`](/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/push.md), [`&room`](/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/room.md), [`&view`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/view.md), [`&scene`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md), [`&solo`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/and-solo.md))

## Aliases

* `&appbg`

## Options

Example: `&background=./media/logo_cropped.png`

| Value         | Description                         |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| (encoded URL) | Changes the background of VDO.Ninja |

## Details

Accepts a URL-encoded image URL to make as the app's default background.

To test:\
[`https://vdo.ninja/?background=./media/logo_cropped.png`](https://vdo.ninja/?background=./media/logo_cropped.png)

The image will scale in size to cover the VDO.Ninja app's background. [`&chroma`](/advanced-settings/design-parameters/chroma.md) can still be used to set the background color, if using transparencies. There already exists [`&bgimage`](/advanced-settings/design-parameters/and-bgimage.md), which will set the default background image for videos; this however will set a background image for the entire page.

You can encode and decode a URL here:\
<https://www.urlencoder.org/>

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## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/UmehaIO8eQ4CpOdydDO6" %}
[\&bgimage](/advanced-settings/design-parameters/and-bgimage.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZHfj9aSfYk2RJf\_S4y" %}
[\&chroma](/advanced-settings/design-parameters/chroma.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/QVr581oBYAXwbToiVTvS" %}
[\&waitimage](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/and-waitimage.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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